Session 1 slides completed. Session 3 third iteration.
--- a/day1/Session-1.tex Wed Oct 07 15:21:29 2009 +0530
+++ b/day1/Session-1.tex Thu Oct 08 22:48:06 2009 +0530
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-% Tutorial slides on Python.
+%Tutorial slides on Python.
%
% Author: Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu at aero.iitb.ac.in>
% Copyright (c) 2005-2009, Prabhu Ramachandran
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{language=Python,
- basicstyle=\ttfamily,
+ basicstyle=\ttfamily\bfseries,
commentstyle=\color{red}\itshape,
stringstyle=\color{darkgreen},
showstringspaces=false,
@@ -134,12 +134,16 @@
% * Add slides on reference counting.
\section{Agenda}
-\begin{frame}{About the Workshop}
+\begin{frame}{About the Workshop, Day 1}
\begin{description}
\item[Day 1, Session 1] Sat 09:30--11:00
\item[Day 1, Session 2] Sat 11:15--12:45
\item[Day 1, Session 3] Sat 13:45--15:15
\item[Day 1, Session 4] Sat 15:30--17:00
+ \end{description}
+\end{frame}
+\begin{frame}{About the Workshop, Day 2}
+ \begin{description}
\item[Day 2, Quiz] Sun 09:00--09:30
\item[Day 2, Session 1] Sun 09:30--11:00
\item[Day 2, Session 2] Sun 11:15--12:45
@@ -151,21 +155,22 @@
\begin{frame}{About the Workshop}
\begin{block}{Intended Audience}
\begin{itemize}
- \item Aimed at Engg., Mathematics and Science teachers.
+ \item Engg., Mathematics and Science teachers.
\item Interested students from similar streams.
\end{itemize}
\end{block}
- \begin{block}{Goal}
- Successful participants will be able to use python as their scripting and problem solving language.
+ \begin{block}{Goal:}
+ Successful participants will be able to
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item use Python as their scripting and problem solving language.
+ \item train the students to use Python for the same
+ \end{itemize}
\end{block}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{Checklist}
- \begin {block}{Live Python}
- Have you booted using the Live Python DVD?
- \end {block}
- \begin{block}{python}
+ \begin{block}{python}
Type python at the command line. Do you see version 2.5 or later?
\end{block}
\begin{block}{IPython}
@@ -308,7 +313,7 @@
\end{center}
\end{frame}
-\begin{frame}{More exercises?}
+\begin{frame}{More exercises}
\begin{center}
\begin{block}{Round sums}
How to round a number to the nearest 5 paise?\\
@@ -508,7 +513,7 @@
\end{block}
\end{frame}
-\begin{frame}[fragile]{Surprise! strings!!}
+\begin{frame}[fragile]{String formatting}
\begin{lstlisting}
In [11]: x, y = 1, 1.2
In [12]: 'x is %s, y is %s' %(x, y)
@@ -523,10 +528,15 @@
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}
- {Interlude}
+ {A classic problem}
\begin{block}
- {A classic problem}
- How to interchange values of two variables? Please note that the type of either variable is unknown and it is not necessary that both be of the same type even!
+ {Interchange values}
+ How to interchange values of two variables?
+ \end{block}
+ \pause
+ \begin{block}{Note:}
+ This Python idiom works for all types of variables.\\
+They need not be of the same type!
\end{block}
\inctime{30}
\end{frame}
@@ -568,10 +578,9 @@
\begin{itemize}
\item aka scripts
\item use your editor
- \item Note that white space is the way to specify blocks!
\item extension \typ{.py}
\item run with \texttt{python hello.py} at the command line
- \item in IPython\ldots
+ \item in IPython using \kwrd{\%run}
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
@@ -627,10 +636,11 @@
\begin{frame}{So what have we learnt so far?}
\begin{itemize}
\item The interactive interpreter
- \item Basic Data Types-Numbers
- \item \typ{if/elif/else, while}
+ \item Basic Data Types
+ \item Creating and running a Python script
+ \item \kwrd{if/elif/else}
\item Simple IO
- \item Creating and running a Python script
+ \item Basic Looping with \kwrd{while}
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
--- a/day1/Session-3.tex Wed Oct 07 15:21:29 2009 +0530
+++ b/day1/Session-3.tex Thu Oct 08 22:48:06 2009 +0530
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{language=Python,
- basicstyle=\ttfamily,
+ basicstyle=\ttfamily\bfseries,
commentstyle=\color{red}\itshape,
stringstyle=\color{darkgreen},
showstringspaces=false,
@@ -86,12 +86,12 @@
%% Delete this, if you do not want the table of contents to pop up at
-%% the beginning of each subsection:
-\AtBeginSubsection[]
+%% the beginning of each section:
+\AtBeginSection[]
{
\begin{frame}<beamer>
\frametitle{Outline}
- \tableofcontents[currentsection,currentsubsection]
+ \tableofcontents[currentsection]
\end{frame}
}
@@ -110,15 +110,7 @@
\titlepage
\end{frame}
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{Outline}
- \tableofcontents
- % You might wish to add the option [pausesections]
-\end{frame}
-
-\section{Python}
-
-\subsection{Problem Set based on Lists and Tuples}
+\section{\typ{for}, Lists and Tuples}
\begin{frame}
{Problem set 3}
@@ -149,7 +141,7 @@
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Problem 3.4a (optional)}
+ \frametitle{Problem 3.4a}
Use the \typ{linspace} function and generate a list of N tuples of the form\\
\typ{[($x_1$,f($x_1$)),($x_2$,f($x_2$)),\ldots,($x_N$,f($x_N$))]}\\for the following functions,\begin{itemize}
@@ -159,7 +151,7 @@
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Problem 3.4b (optional)}
+ \frametitle{Problem 3.4b}
Using the tuples generated earlier, determine the intervals where the roots of the functions lie.
@@ -170,7 +162,7 @@
% TIME: 15 m, running 185m
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-\subsection{IO}
+\section{Input/Output}
\begin{frame}[fragile]
\frametitle{Simple tokenizing and parsing}
@@ -239,7 +231,7 @@
% TIME: 30 m, running 215m
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-\subsection{Modules}
+\section{Modules}
\begin{frame}[fragile]
{Modules}
@@ -347,11 +339,12 @@
\inctime{25}
\end{frame}
+
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% TIME: 25 m, running 230m
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-\subsection{Coding Style in Python}
+\section{Coding Style in Python}
\begin{frame}{Readability and Consistency}
\begin{itemize}
\item Readability Counts!-Code is read more often than its written.
@@ -396,8 +389,11 @@
\inctime{10}
\end{frame}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+% TIME: 10 m, running 240m
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-\subsection{Objects}
+\section{Objects}
\begin{frame}{Objects in Python}
\begin{itemize}
\item What is an Object? (Types and classes)
@@ -407,8 +403,33 @@
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
+\begin{frame}{Everything is an Object!}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item \typ{list, tuple}
+ \item \typ{string, dictionary}
+ \item \typ{function}
+ \item Of course, user defined class objects!
+ \end{itemize}
+\end {frame}
+
+\begin{frame}{Using Objects}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Creating Objects: Initialization
+ \item Object Manipulation: Object methods and ``.'' operator
+ \end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Why are they useful?}
+ \frametitle{IPython Examples}
+ \begin{lstlisting}
+In [1]: l = [] #Initialising a list object
+In [2]: l?
+In [3]: l.<tab>
+ \end{lstlisting}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}[fragile]
+ \frametitle{Objects provide a certain consistency}
\small
\begin{lstlisting}
for element in (1, 2, 3):
@@ -430,9 +451,15 @@
\inctime{10}
\end{frame}
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{What did we learn?}
- \tableofcontents
- % You might wish to add the option [pausesections]
+\section{Summary}
+
+\begin{frame}{What have we learnt so far?}
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Writing to and Reading from files using \typ{for}
+ \item Using and writing Python Modules
+ \item Coding Style
+ \item Objects in Python
+ \end{itemize}
\end{frame}
+
\end{document}